install is very quick & easy just remember to copy over the dec2hex.inc to the joomtunes folder. Now I just need to figure out what to put in the Affiliate Site ID to get my commission from the Linkshare site - any ideas anyone , I have also emailed Gavin Smith about this awaiting his response

I just uploaded the hex file to the folder it's supposed to be in and it works great. I can't seem to email these guys. I do have a couple questions. I'd like to modify the style, and what info it shows for each item. I'd also like it to work with other linkshare affiliate programs than just itunes.

I think you forgot to put the dec2hex.inc file in the xml as it's not copying over upon installing the module. Please fix the zip for everyone :)

I will be enquiring about a couple more things but this is a review so i'll just say:

This is a good module with great potential!

Sounds interesting

But as I tried to use it, I got an error:

Warning: main(joomtunes/dec2hex.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in .../modules/mod_joomtunes.php on line 28

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'joomtunes/dec2hex.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/share/pear') in .../modules/mod_joomtunes.php on line 28

this module is coool, i like it much . I get a problem , how can i set to only show the photos or let the photo over the content , because i put it on vertical bar. the photo is show at the left side and the content only show part of them in the vertical bar .

anyway thanks Gavin Smith make this module !!!!

I have made a newer version available that includes a number of enhancements You can now display any combination of genres that you choose in a single store, allow the user of your site to select the feed that they want to see and also made improvements to caching (including being able to nominate where you want the cache to be).

Thanks to micoots for the suggestions.

I wrote previously about "caching" facilities to be provided by this module. This module actually has the facility but it's not implemented correctly.

After looking at the code, the ./modules/joomtunes/rss_cache.inc file looks for (and if non-existant) creates a "joomtunes/cache" directory, but it attempts to do this directly from the web root of the server (ie. to create ./joometunes/cache from your web root).

People that are security concience don't allow the webserver to write to webroot (deny all and allow only what's necessary) which is why this cache directory wasn't being created and populated in my setup.

Strictly speaking, this module should be caching its items either in the Joomla cache directory (./cache of web root which already has 777 permission), or generating it's cache directory from it's own ./modules/joomtunes/cache directory tree (so that removing the module cleans up after itself).

So to cut a long story short, to make the caching component work I needed to create this directory off my web root:

./joomtunes/cache

and assign it write privilege for the webserver.

I have emailed Gavin Smith above with this and hope that he'll implement some fixes, including cleanly removing its cache directory and tree if someone wanted to remove the module cleanly.

Thanks.

Michael.

This is an excellent affiliate module but seems to have one major drawback, out of the 35 or so Genre's of music available to select from, you can only select 1 to display. To select anymore you have to make multiple copies of the module with each selecting the Genre to display to your visitors.

A very time consuming process to setup exactly the way you want.

It would be much better if it just displayed on a page all the different genre's available, and have the user select what genre they're interested in, which would then make the link to iTunes to get the "lastest" or "most popular" etc. Basically, it would be much better to have the list of items available on the site instead of just small subsections of it.

The other thing which could use updating is when the module can't talk to iTunes, it just produces an error saying bad or broken connection. It would be much better if it cached it's previous "itunes visit" to still display something for the visitor.

For a first release it's really an excellent module (thankyou), but I would hope that as it matures it could address the things above.

Michael.